Broaden your Field Research Skills with the World Bank Group Institute for Economic Development Free Virtual Course
Closing Date: 15 November 2024
Broaden your Field Research Skills with the World Bank Group Institute for Economic Development Free Virtual Course
The free course on managing field research is delivered by the Institute for Economic Development, World Bank Group.
Manage Successful Field Research
This virtual course is designed for professionals responsible for managing field research. It is intended to improve the skills and knowledge of field research practitioners, familiarizing them with best practices, critical issues in research implementation, recurring challenges, and cutting-edge technologies.
- Duration: 25 hours
- Video: 5 hours
- Training typology: e-learning
- Community: Multiple forums
What’s included?
- Videos
- Text materials
- Assessment
- Certification
- Forum discussion
Learning Objectives
- Demonstrate the skills needed to implement high-quality field research.
- Ensure quality field research, including data privacy and research ethics.
Who the Institute is looking for
•Development practitioners.
• Young researchers.
• Graduate students in economics, public policy, development studies, or similar fields.
• Public servants involved with monitoring and evaluation or other analytics.
Manage Successful Field Research
This free course on managing field research is open for 1 month. It starts on October 15 and closes on November 15, offering you two live sessions. Enroll now to the course and access the full content from October 15!
Virtual Course Outline
WELCOME & INTRODUCTION: 15 Oct 2024
Includes:
- Pre-course assessment (mandatory)
- Keynote address: Research to transform development
- Opening live session
- Introduce yourself
- Expectations and learners review
- Course completion requirements
- Discussion forum (not mandatory)
DESIGN IMPACTFUL FIELD RESEARCH: 15 Oct 2024
- Establishing causality (Experimental & Non-experimental methods)
- Introduction to sampling
- Ethical research & data privacy
- Leveraging Emerging AI Tools for Field Research
- Discussion forum (not mandatory)
- Peer review activity
- Knowledge check exam
MANAGE SUCCESSFUL SURVEYS: 15 Oct 2024
Design & pilot survey
- Engaging with data collectors and firms
- Are you measuring what you think you are measuring?
- Discussion forum (not mandatory)
- Peer review activity
- Knowledge Check Exam
GO BEYOND SURVEYS: 15 Oct 2024
- Non-traditional data sources
- Acquiring and processing secondary data
- Using administrative data for research
- Mixed Methods in Field Research
- Discussion forum (not mandatory)
- Peer review activity
- Knowledge Check Exam
ENSURE QUALITY: 15 Oct 2024
- Monitoring implementation fidelity
- Real-time data quality assurance
- Field validation for data quality
- Discussion forum (not mandatory)
- Peer review activity
- Knowledge Check Exam
CLOSING
- What Should Researchers Think About When Sharing Research
- Discussion forum (not mandatory)
- Closing live session
- Peer review activity
- Post-course assessment (mandatory)
- Feedback
- Acknowledgments
- Certificate
- Meet the Institute core team
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